How did your Cat(s) get there Name(s)?!!

My roommate started naming all the animals in the house after booze. Hennessy was chosen after much deliberation.

If I'd gotten two they would have been Bombay and Sapphire.

Originally Posted by Vixen16

So how'd your cat(s) get there names??!!!

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I just dropped the an off of Persian to get Persi.

Alley came from an alley (honestly)

Shelby races around so much (Shelby is a race car)

Marcie already had her name when we adopted her and it just seemed like a good fit, so we kept it.

When we adopted Darcy, she was named Pretty. We didn't like this name for her. I wanted to name her Hannah or Zaphod Beeblebrox, but Hubby liked the idea of calling her Darcy.

Brandy - My parents named him.

Shark - She bites your ankles when hungry.

Arwen - Her facial features and little elf like ears (my dad pointed out her facial features looking like the elf princesses..somehow the name stuck!)

Sassy is short for Surasassy who is a character in one of my favorite books
Cabal by Clive Barker. Surasassy is a half human/half cat character.

Linus was named Baxter when I adopted him, the day I brought him home he hid in his carrier under a blanket, what else would I call him but Linus after the peanuts character.

Pixie was named Mica when I adopted her, it became apparent quite quickly she was a mischievous little imp, so her name was changed to Pixie.

Inky: was a black in color and I wanted a name besides Blackey or Blackie.
Shadow: I got her when I had Inky. She was also black in color.
Cleo: This was short for Cleophas.
Felicia: I heard this name and thought is was so pretty. I said my next female cat would be named Felicia.
Beau: I heard the word beau and liked it.

Chynna. She is about 15 years old and has owned me for over 14 years:
She is pure white and I didn't want a generic name like "snowy" or "snowball". I like "normal" sounding names. She reminded me of porcelin because of her white fur which is so fine and downy soft, but "Porcelin" sounded stupid. So I decided on "China", but that looked like the name of a country. So I varied the spelling to "Chynna". Now I get asked if I named her after some wrestler whom I'd never heard of, LOL

Abby. She is 9 years old and came to live with me when she was 4 months:
The girl I got her from named her "Abigail" or "Abby" for short. Since she had been called that since she was a wee itsy baby, I left it. She is my "red head" and looks like an "Abby".

Miette - Because it is French for "sweet" and I thought Miette had the sweetest nature, and gives me such loving sweet looks. When she looks at me she looks right into my eyes and soul.

Samson- My son chose "Samson" from a list of names. It seemed to suit him.
He was almost called Pele' after the soccer player because Samson is a whizz at "kitten soccer", or "Dasher/Dash" because he is always dashing everywhere around the house. But we thought Samson needed a name to take him into adulthood

I think they have grown into their names and they seem to suit them.

KittyCoo xx

Keli - Is a calico, and I just figured it was different than the usual Callie

Bandit is a seal point - hense the name

Jinx - b/c he is more my DH's cat and he just loves the cat from Meet the Parents. LOL< Jinxy-cat will come running if you sing to him like in the movie.

Shellbie- was rescued from a Shell gas station in CLeveland.

Bailey- Hmmm, seemed appropriate for a ginger boy. And it was better then "Satan's Spawn" as DH was calling him

Kailey - my stepson rescued her and wanted to call her Callie , but I nixed it. Too close to Keli! So that was his second choice!

Orginially my cats were my sisters when we first got them so she named them.

Rocko - from the nick show Rocko's Modern Life.

Bear - Suppose to be named after her boyfriend, Berry. I still call him that sometimes.

Murfie - as in murfie's law: anything that can go wrong will! She was originally called Blaise but I figured being a devon rex she was going to get into a lot of trouble!

Then there's my 3 dogs (i know its a thread for cat names but what the hell!)

HoneyChild, was called Cocoa when i got her and i didnt like that so i just started calling her honey child....i think watching the show "the simple life" got nicole richies dogs name stuck in my head subliminally!

Sir Winston McCall Sausage Pants Bratwurst the 3rd - i originally named him after the singer from my fav band then decided he was a "sir" so added that. Then as he is a daxie cross he needed something to do with sausges....as for the "3rd" part....well im just an idiot haha

Rockstar - i watched all the "Rocky" movies when he was born (Honey is his mother) but i didnt want to just call him rocky so added the star part

Matilda - I picked this as a possible name because it's my favorite children's book (Matilda by Roald Dahl) and I love the character. When I adopted Matilda, I thought it fit her because I could use the nickname Mattie which went with her super long hair that could easily get matted. When I brought her home, my SO randomly suggested the name Matilda, half-joking. He didn't know I was thinking of naming her that. So that's how Matilda became Matilda.

Chloe - we just liked it. My SO really liked the name Zoe, and I really liked the name Sophie (Sophie would keep the Roald Dahl theme going). He didn't like Sophie for a cat, I didn't want Zoe, and somehow we ended up on Chloe. The name really fits her perfectly I think.

Akasha- is the name of the vampire mother in Anne Rice's vampire books, also known as the Queen of the Damned. And when we first got her she had the damnedest way of hiding so we couldn't find her no materr how many times we moved the furniture at !:30am. It also means The Spirit. And she definitly has that.


Kahlan- another character in a book. This time from Terry Goodkind. She was the Mother Confessor and had the power to completely destroy a person with a single touch. She makes the person fall in love with her and think of nothing other than pleasing her. And well, Kahlan stole mine and DH's hearts the first time she looked at us.

Sal- (foster kitty)- came in at 3 weeks old, and the little girl that found him liked the name Sally, but we found out she is a he, so it was shortened to Sal since he already knew his name.

General Tso's Kitten, Lieutenant Kittenpants - Kit - was originally named Eloise, as we thought (until I took him in to make an appointment to get him "spayed") he was a girl when we first brought him home at 7 weeks. We couldn't agree on what to change his name to once we found out he was a boy, and we'd been using General Tso's Kitten/Kittenpants/Kitten as a nickname, so it sort of stuck. Creative? Nah, but nothing else seems to suit him! (I do sometimes call him Casius, as in Casius Clay, because we "box" with him sometimes, haha... poor thing is probably terribly confused about his name! Although he does generally come when we call "Kitten!" or "come here, baby boy!")

Nabu - my roommate in college named him

Stimpy - my husband got to name him as part of the agreement to adopt him. He picked the name because Stimpy looks like he's smiling like the cartoon character. I think we should have named him Ren instead....He's scarey smart.

Hmm, where to begin:

"Melody" (aka Monster): not sure why I picked the name Melody, just liked it I guess, but she goes more by Monster or Monst as that is what she turns into when at the vets office, and since she only has one kidney she is there frequently.

"Ginger" (aka Jimmy): since she is siamese we decided to go with the oriental spices and Ginger seemed to fit. Jimmy Jam Pajamas is her nickname since she looks like she is wearing jammies.

"Gracie" (aka Squeezums): my husband named her, I assume because she is gray! If it were up to me I would have named her Victoria after Victoria Secret, because she has a white spot in the shape of a diamond on her neck, 2 triangles for a bra and 1 for panties. Squeezums came from the fact she loves to have her tummy squeezed.

"Dusty" (aka D): we rescued him from the eastern plains of CO. and when we got him her was nothing but a ball of dust and matts-hence the name Dusty, although I must say he has cleaned up beautifully!

"Squeeker" (aka Skeeks): was a hard one-he was originally rescued from a house fire and was all burnt, we tried to find a name that had something to do with fire ie: Ash, Pheonix etc, but none fit. We both love the movie the Incredibles, and the line where he rescues the little kitty and says" Officer, Maam, Squeeker" So we named him Squeeker, which fit because when he was a week old that was all he did anyway was Squeek!

"Alley" (aka Al Pal): was found in the eastern plains as well and was an alley cat-so the name stuck. She is my 6 mos. old daughters best friend and goes wherever the baby is so we nicknamed her Al Pal.

"Turbo" (aka Turby): ever since we got him he has always ran through the house at incredible amounts of speed as if he is Turbo charged-so Turbo it was!!! And let me tell you that little cat can move!!!!!

"Uno" (aka Dude): I named him Uno because of his uno eyeball, but since he was our first boy kitty, we always called him our little Dude, we have called him Dude more than Uno, but that was his given name.

"Patches O'Houlihan": is our newest addition, she has been with us for 3 weeks now and we have gone rounds over a name for her-I even posted a thread about it, but my husband loves the movie Dodgeball so she is named after the movie character-she is a tortie with the coolest markings I have ever seen-she has a perfect orange heart on her face.

Tommy - cat my family had when I was little, my sister and I named him Tommy because he was a Tom Cat

Tiger - so named because when he was a kitten he liked to attack everything, like a tiger

Princess - so named because when she was a kitten she acted all dainty and above it all, like a little princess

Ripper - my sister's cat, so named for two reasons: when they first got her, she'd run quickly (i.e. rip) back and forth through the house, and because also at first, she hid under the bed and when my brother-in-law reached in for her, she ripped his hand to shreds

Sundance - also my sister's cat, she named him after The Sundance Kid

Bella: Well... I wanted to name my first daughter "Arabella" and call her "Bella" for short, because in Italian it means "beautiful" and it's such a pretty, graceful name. When I adopted Bella, she was just so beautiful and tugged so hard at my heartstrings. She IS my daughter, so I named her Bella And beautiful is only one of the few great adjectives for her.




This was a great thread idea! I love hearing all the different names!

Squishy got her name cause when we got her she was a teeny tiny ball of fur and when you picked her up she felt squishy from all the hair.